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FC Lokomotiv Moscow ( FC Lokomotiv Moskva, russian : Футбольный клуб “ Локомотив ” Москва, [ fʊdˈbolʲnɨj kɫup ɫəkəmɐˈtʲif mɐˈskva ] ) is a russian professional football club based in Moscow.

Lokomotiv have won the russian Premier League on three occasions ; the soviet Cup doubly ; and the russian Cup a commemorate nine times .

history [edit ]

early years [edit ]

Lokomotiv was founded as Kazanka (Moskovskaya-Kazanskaya Zh.D) in 1922. In 1924, the clubhouse brought together the strongest football players of respective lines of the Moscow railway system as KOR ( “ Club of the October Revolution “ ). In 1931, the club was again renamed to Kazanka (Moskovskaya-Kazanskaya Zh.D) and in 1936, it was finally renamed to as it is known nowadays, Lokomotiv ( the identify means “ Locomotive “ ). During the Communist principle, Lokomotiv Moscow golf club was a separate of the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society and was owned by the Soviet Ministry of Transportation through the Russian Railways .

soviet earned run average [edit ]


Lokomotiv Moscow in concluding 1936 When the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society was created in 1936, its football team featured the best players of Kazanka, and a act of strong soviet footballers of that time such as Valentin Granatkin, Nikolay llyin, Alexey Sokolov, Pyotr Terenkov, Mikhail Zhukov, llya Gvozdkov and Ivan Andreev. Lokomotiv debuted in the first-ever soviet football club backing with a game against Dynamo Leningrad on 22 May 1936. In the beginning two seasonal championships ( give and fall ), Lokomotiv finished fifth and fourth respectively. The first Lokomotiv achiever arrived soon as in 1936, the railwaymen rose up to the occasion to beat Dynamo Tbilisi 2–0 in the soviet Cup Final, frankincense winning the first soviet Cup .

Lokomotiv Moscow in final 1957 The follow years were preferably successful as Lokomotiv were consistent in the home championships. however, performances after World War II suffered and in a five-year cross, Lokomotiv were relegated to the Soviet First League doubly. In 1951, Lokomotiv came second and finally won the promotion to the Soviet Top League. This kicked off the second Lokomotiv ‘s revival and until the beginning of the 1960s, Lokomotiv competed for the USSR ‘s top trophies. In 1957, Lokomotiv won the cup for the second time, and two years late, Lokomotiv won the silver medals of the Soviet League. irregular place was the highest status ever obtained by Lokomotiv during the Soviet era. Another important hallmark for Lokomotiv was the authorization of playing friendly matches against extraneous enemy. typically, up to the late 1950s, international sports contacts with soviet teams were highly rare. however, since in 1955, Lokomotiv became a quasi- ” football ambassador ” for the Soviet Union abroad, participating in friendly matches in versatile parts of the earth, including Europe, Asia, Africa and even North America. This policy of receptiveness ushered in a great era for Lokomotiv, with the team including some of the finest soviet footballers of the era, such as Vladimir Maslachenko, Gennady Zabelin, Eugeny Rogov, Valentin Bubukin, Victor Sokolov, Victor Voroshilov, Igor Zajtsev, Zaur Kaloyev, Yuri Kovalyov and Vitaly Artemyev. When Lokomotiv ‘s strongest players abandoned the cabaret, however, Lokomotiv fell again from grace and a swing between the first and second divisions followed, instability last until the end of the 1980s .

Post-Soviet era [edit ]

In the begin of the 1990s, Lokomotiv was considered the “ weakest radio link ” amongst the peak Moscow clubs. It lacked both results on the pitch and fans ‘ hold in the stands. however, head coach Yuri Semin and president Valeri Filatov were able to lead the baseball club ‘s build up, therefore installing Lokomotiv as the “ fifth roulette wheel of the Moscow handcart. ” historically, Lokomotiv was not considered to be a big club in the lapp vein as Spartak, CSKA, Dynamo and Torpedo. With the erstwhile soviet republics and their clubs gone, however, Lokomotiv took the opportunity to shine. solid performances in domestic league and several memorable campaigns in european Cups made Lokomotiv a superclub by russian scales and brought back fans and supporters back to the stands. In 2002, a newfangled stadium— Lokomotiv Stadium —resembling a traditional, covenant English matchless was built. The stadium, at that meter considered to be one of the most comfortable, if not the best, in Eastern Europe gave a huge hike to the club ‘s fan growth rate. finally, by 2009, the average attendance at the stadium was the second highest in Moscow. In 2002, a “ golden match ” was needed to decide who will be the champion, as Lokomotiv Moscow and CSKA Moscow both finished with the same number of points after Gameweek 30. The game was played at Dynamo Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd. Lokomotiv took an early lead thanks a low drive from captain Dmitry Loskov, and finally the goal turned out to be enough for Lokomotiv to claim the inaugural deed in the club ‘s history. Two years late, Lokomotiv again won the russian Premier League, edging city rivals CSKA by a unmarried point ; Lokomotiv defeated Shinnik Yaroslavl 0–2 in Yaroslavl, a workweek after CSKA fell to city rivals Dynamo at home. In 2005, long-time head coach Yuri Semin left the team to coach the russian national team, where he was replaced at Lokomotiv by Vladimir Eshtrekov. During the lapp year, although leading the league for most of the year, Lokomotiv stumbled in the last games of the campaign, allowing CSKA overtake them and claim the title, with Lokomotiv ultimately falling to third. Estrekhov was subsequently sacked and replaced by Slavoljub Muslin, the beginning foreign coach in the golf club ‘s history. After a poor originate to the raw season, Lokomotiv recovered and finished one-third, but despite the respectable performance, Muslin was sacked ; Anatoly Byshovets took the helm as his refilling, with Yury Semin returning to serve as team president. This brought little success to Lokomotiv, who finished the season in one-seventh, with the lone bright spot being the victory of the russian Cup. These hapless performances prompted the board of directors to sack both coach Anatoly Byshovets and President Semin. Rinat Bilyaletdinov was subsequently named caretaker coach. This lasted until 6 December 2006, when Lokomotiv brought in Rashid Rakhimov from Amkar Perm on a three-year sign. Again, however, this resulted to be yet another inadequate decision from the board, as Lokomotiv lone finished seventh in 2008, besides beginning the 2009 season ill. Unsurprisingly, on 28 April 2009, Lokomotiv fired Rakhimov ; long-serving actor Vladimir Maminov was installed as a caretaker director. A month late, Semin was brought bet on to the club to take charge. This appointment delivered immediate success to Lokomotiv as after a very poor starting signal, Lokomotiv recovered and finished the temper on a high, claiming fourth place in the action. In 2010 shortly after the sign of early Lokomotiv musician Peter Odemwingie to West Bromwich Albion, photograph showed Lokomotiv Moscow fans celebrating the sale of Odemwingie through the habit of racist banners targeted at the player. [ 2 ] One banner included the double of a banana and read “ Thanks West Brom ”. [ 2 ] Before West Brom ‘s game against Tottenham Hotspur in September 2010, it was announced that West Brom fans would unfurl a standard to counter the racist one, the standard read ‘Thanks Lokomotiv ‘ and is accompanied by a picture of Odemwingie celebrating his win on his debut against Sunderland. [ 3 ] Before the 2011–12 league season, Semin left the club and was replaced by early Spartak Nalchuk coach Yuri Krasnozhan. On 4 June 2011, rumours spread that Lokomotiv chair Olga Smorodskaya suspected Krasnozhan of throwing away the 27 May, 1–2 home league get the better of to Anzhi Makhachkala, deciding to sack him on the grounds of the misgiving. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lokomotiv was fifth in the table at the time, just one sharpen away from first-placed CSKA. On 6 July, after a Lokomotiv Committee of Directors meet, Krasnozhan ‘s shrink was formally terminated on the basis of “ negligence in his occupation. ” [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Russian Football Union subsequently refused to investigate the font. [ 9 ] Assistant director Maminov again took over as caretaker for three weeks until a replacement was found in the mannequin of José Couceiro, who had himself just finished a caretaking least sandpiper as director of Sporting Clube de Portugal. Couceiro, however, lasted fair one year in the function, as the golf club opted not to renew his contract at the end of the 2011–12 season. After croatian national team head coach Slaven Bilić announced he would step down after his nation ‘s participation at Euro 2012, Loko acted cursorily to sign him to a three-year narrow. however, Bilić ‘s first season at the helm brought another disappointment, as Loko finished one-ninth, its lowest-ever finish in the post-Soviet earned run average of russian domestic football. just anterior to the 2013–14 season, Bilić was sacked and replaced with new head coach Leonid Kuchuk. Results under Kuchuk improved well, to the extent that Lokomotiv lead the table for periods angstrom good. finally, however, Lokomotiv ran out of steam and after only managing to win a unmarried points from the last three matches of the season, Lokomotiv had to settle for the third identify .

recent history [edit ]

In the follow temper, Kuchuk failed to build up on the improved performances of the former season and with Lokomotiv languished at the ninth seat, Kuchuk was given the sack prematurely. Miodrag Božović was called to steady the transport but despite the early promise, a black run of one win in a stretch of nine matches resulted in Božović being sacked with three league matches to go and with Igor Cherevchenko re-appointed as caretaker coach for the second base clock time during the temper. Despite the poor league performance, wherein Lokomotiv placed in the seventh place again, Lokomotiv did end the temper on a plus tone as Cherevchenko managed to rally his troops and win the russian Cup with a 3-1 gain over Kuban Krasnodar. This success, which brought the first objet d’art of silverware to Lokomotiv in 8 years, was adequate to convince Olga Smorodskaya to appoint Cherevchenko on a permanent wave basis. Lokomotiv ‘s performances under Cherechenko did improve in the get down but it was a fake promise once again as in the end Lokomotiv faltered and did not manage to qualify for european football. Notwithstanding this, Cherevchenko was confirmed for the 2016–17 season.

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After months of meditation, and with entirely two games in the raw season, the boqrd pulled the plug on Smorodskaya ‘s black tenure and relieved Smorodskaya handwriting Cherechenko from their positions. Ilya Herkus was brought in in place of Smorodskaya and with the goal of resolving the former board ‘s fractious kinship with the fans and bring them back to the stadium, Lokomotiv appointed Yury Semin as their coach for the fourthly time. In besides came crowd favored Dmitri Loskov, who was assigned to assist Semin with his duties. Despite the dear feelings brought by the change in management, Lokomotiv ‘s performances rarely improved and a disruptive season ended up in Lokomotiv place in a disappoint one-eighth side. In what was the entirely foreground of the season, Lokomotiv managed to snatch the russian Cup for a articulation record seventh fourth dimension by crushing Ural Yekaterinburg ‘s dreams of their first ever piece of silverware with a two-nil victory. Despite the average league performance, Semin was confirmed for the future season. Herkus ‘ decisiveness to retain Semin resulted to be a calculating decision as Semin managed to do the unthinkable and rallied Lokomotiv to win the russian Premier League for only the third clock time in their history. In Europe, Lokomotiv besides performed admirably, as they managed to advance to Round of 16 for the first time in their history and got eliminated by Atlético Madrid, who finally went on to win the Cup .

Performances in Europe [edit ]

Lokomotiv reached the Cup Winners ‘ Cup semi-final doubly, in 1997–98 and 1998–99. The baseball club besides played in the UEFA Champions League for the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, progressing past the group stage in the latter only to fall to eventual finalists AS Monaco in the beat of 16. They qualified to the group stages again for the 2019-20 season. [ 10 ]

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

As of 2 September 2021[11]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

other players under narrow [edit ]

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domestic competitions [edit ]

Leagues [edit ]

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International competitions [edit ]

stadium [edit ]

Lokomotiv play their home games at RZD Arena. Its sum seat capacity is 27,320 seats, all covered. The stadium was opened after reconstruction in 2002 .

League and Cup history [edit ]

Soviet Union Soviet Union [edit ]

celebrated players [edit ]

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Lokomotiv .

club records [edit ]

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